Waya entered her room. Covered nearly from head to toe in white slime she sojurned to the bathroom to clean up. After showering she chnged into sweats and wrapped a towel around her neck. She left her room to relax in the rec room.
Waya returned some time later. now covered in icing instead of internal slime. she deposited her clothes in the hamper and retiered to the bathroom agin to wash her icing ladened hair. When she emerged she changed into a set of black satin pajammas. She sat down on the bed nd folded her legs beneath her. She pulled her guitar from bside the bed and struck a souar note. She grimaced and relized tht it needed to be tuned. Using her keen hearing she began to slowly tune the guitar. Concentrating on the sound of each note as to get it near perfect.
There was a loud knock at the door, followed by
Rhydian's voice. "Waya? Are you alright?"
"Peachy."
Waya answered folloowing her remark with a perectly tuned strum across the fretguard.
"Ummm...may I come in? It's kind of lonely out here."
Rhydian replied from behind the closed door
A shadow was pulled from the nightstand and
Waya turned it into a lion tamarian monkey. The blck puff of monkey scmpered to the door, hopped to grab hold of the knob and twisted it open. The moneky then bounded over to Waya and setteled on her shoulder where she scratched it's head for a moment beore returning it to it's rightfl place as a night stand shadow.
"Ummmm....hi."
Rhydian said as he walked into her room. He shut the door behind him and looked around. In all the years he had been here, he didn't recall ever actually being in her room. But there was obvious indication that there were once pictures or paintings on the walls.
"Hi."
Wya said a she strumed the guitar again. She made a few quick cords with her nimbel fingers and stopped the vibration by placing her palm on the fretguard.
"How come you left the party?"
Rhydian asked her curiously. To be honest he wa sa little bit concerned
"Just wanted to be alone."
Waya said "All the excitement reminded me of how things used to be."
"I'm sorry Waya..."
Rhydian said, taking a cautious step towards her. He knew that when she got upset, she would sometimes lose control. He wasn't exactly sure if she had been to that point yet or not though.
"Not your fault."
Waya sid still preccupied with the guitar. "Those kamakazie cupcakes where amusing."
Rhydian smiled and sat down next to her. "I couldn't stand to watch you lose...not that you would, but yeah...I guess I kind of paniced and I made reinforcements
."
"Thanks." Waya said to the guitar.
"Did you see the look on Moe's face when that first one hit her?" Rhydian asked with a grin. "Priceless, don't you think?" He noticed she was looking at the guitar and not him, something was defineately wrong. "Want to talk about it?" He asked her quietly
"We're friends right Rhyd?" Waya said "We like each other right?"
"Like each other?" Rhydian asked her, his face quickly flushing red. "Yea...yeah of course..." he stampered
"Rhydan..." WayaM said finaly looking up from her guitar "I'm basicaly a feral. I... I know you look at me differently from the other girls..."
Rhydian blushed deeply and looked away. He had completely forgotten that she was feral. No idea how the hell he forgot about that, but he did...
"Rhyd... It's ok." Waya said "I like you, I really do..."
Rhydian scratched the back of his head, "I don't want to sound like a valley girl...but like-like or just like?" He asked her, laughing slightly
"I don't want to say unless I know how you feel..." waya asnwered "Do you like-like me?"
Rhydian blushed deeply. "Ummmmm yeah..." he said a little bit nervously.
Waya contemplated his words for a moment and said "I feel the same way Rhydian."
Rhydian smiled happily. He was so relieved to hear her say that
Unsure of how to deal with the recent conversation Waya strummed on the guitar again.
"So ummmm....I'm sure there's still some music playing downstairs. Would you like to...you know...go back and dance?" Rhydian asked her barvely. She had already turned him down once
Waya continued to strum lightly on the guitar. "Not especialy." She said "I would think that we need to discuss our relationship and how it applies to the team on a whole. I mean, risking our lives or someone elses to save the other. I mean we are all close. Hell even the twins but we need to determine what WE are."
"Well I guess you could say that we're open to interpretation?" Rhydian asked her with a grin. To be perfectly honest he could see where she was coming from but at the same time he was utterly confused about the situation as well.
"I mean...do we begin a courtship?" Waya asked "Dates, movies, private danger room sessions. How do we handle this?"
"Private danger room sessions?" Rhydian asked her curiously. He had no idea what one would do in a private danger room session, the general use of the room was for training, but why would it need to be made private. "You make it sound so formal...but yeah I suppose courtship would be the proper term for it."
Waya got the sinking suspicion that Rhydian was confused about the DR sessions. "DR sessions to hone our powers as a unit. A pair." She wanted to add 'Like Mom and Dad.' but the words fell short. She changed the subject back to the root of the issue. "Is it just me or does this seem... difficult?" She put the guitar down and turned her full attention to Rhydian.
"It's different to say the least..." Rhydian replied, rubbing the back of his head. "DR sessions to hone our powers as a unit? I think I would like that..."
"So are we planning a date then?" Waya asked
"Sure!" Rhydian said with a smile
"Oh... um... Tomorrow before breakfast?" Waya asked
"How about after breakfast? I kind of like to have a full stomach before goin in the danger room..." Rhydian said, although not entirely sure if she meant the DR session or having breakfast together itself.
"OK... meet you at 8?" Waya asked
"Alright. It's a date." Rhydian siad with a smile
"OK then." Waya said
"So ummmm....now what?" Rhydian asked her curiously
"Wild passionate sex on the floor?" Waya asked sarcasticaly
Rhydian's face lit up like a christmas tree and he looked around nervously, he never was any good with sarcasm
Waya flopped back on the bed and exclaimed "Take me Rhydian!" She then could no longer contain herself and erupted in a fit of giggles.
Rhydian blushe ddeeply and looked away as it finally hit himt hat she was joking
Waya sat up and pushed her hair out of the way. One of the few times she revelaed the tttoo on her cheek "Oh gah Rhyd, lighten up." She then relized that she'd said that "Make you a deal? I'll lighten up a bit if you do? Only around eachother though, I have to keep my reputtion as X-Zilla."
"X-Zilla?" Rhydian asked with an arched eyebrow as he spied the tattoo. "Hey what's that? Haven't seen that in a while."
"What?" Waya askied then realized that she usuly kept her tattoo hidden now-a-days "Oh... well..."
Rhydian brushed her hair back behind her ear and smiled. "You should wear your hair back sometime."
"None of that." Waya said shying away with a dim smile "No disarming and letting me think your sweet till after the first date."
"No disarming? What do you mean?" Rhydian asked her, not entirely sure what she meant by it
"Making me let my guard down." Waya said shking her hair back into her face to hde her tattoo and part of her eyes.
"Making you? I don't think I was making you do anything at all, Waya." Rhydian said with a grin.
"There you go again." Waya said
Rhydian shrugged. "Honestly, I'm not trying to do anything."
"Yer slick Rhyd, really slick." Waya said
"Ummmm Thanks?" Rhydian asked her, entirely confused again.
"Clueless." Waya said picking up her guitar again
"So....ummm...are we going to have breakfast together int he morning or is that an 8am DR session?" Rhydian asked her curiously. He had given up just making assumptions
"Breakfast would be nice." Waya answered
Rhydian smiled. "What would you like? I'll cook."
'suprise me." Waya smiled
"Alright." Rhydian said with a nod. He stood up from the bed and pushed her hair back behind her ear again. "Seriously, you should leave your hair back sometime. I'm gonna go now, see you in the morning Waya."
"Til tomorrow." Waya said and this time she didn't push her hair back down
Rhydian smiled as he noticed she hadn't pushed her hair back into place and walked out of her room, and headed straight to his own
Waya mde a few more strums on her guitar as he left.
Waya was alwys an early riser. Even when she was a child. The other students weren't used to getting up at the butt crack of dawn so Waya simply sat in her room. Out on her balcony she meditated for about twenty minuets. She showered and dressed then took a morning stroll threw the shadow relm. She'd actualy not taken her mroning constitutional since the morning her parents and everyone else vanished but she decided she had nothing better to do this morning. There had been a particular shadow cat she'd been trying to tame for about a year now. She was determined. If the shadow relm was connected to her powers she should be able to susceed. The cat had been exibiting different behavior around her than the other cats. HOwever the weeks since her usual atempts with him he had leaned back into his usual demeanor. Most of her work down the drain she just stayed on the verge of his territory letting him get used to her presence. After a few hours she finaly left the shadow relm and returned to the warmpth of her room. The sun had risen and it was about 9 am. She figured Rhydian would be awake by now so she left her room insearch of him.
Waya entered her room and locked the door behind her. Finally she felt like she could breath again and leaned against the door for a few moments, doing just that. When she felt steady again she went to the bathroom were she turned on the shower and stripped out of her uniform. She left bloody footprints on the floor as she stepped into the shower. The hot water was soothing but as she let the suds wash out of her hair she was overwhelmed by all that had happened today. The water washed away her tears and she regretted her decision to loose Liz' machine in the shadow realm. How long would it be until they found their families now? Another six months? A year? She figured she would have felt the explosion threw the shadow realm but so far she hadn't noticed... Perhaps it hadn't exploded yet? Maybe they had time. There was a smidgen of hope in that and it encouraged her to stop her wallowing and get dressed. Once out of the shower she dawned a pair of sweatpants and a t-shirt and decided to go see Eliza.
Stumble!